Genocide and Resistance Research Centre

President conferred state award on human rights defender Jan Raczynsky

President Gitanas Nausėda met on Thursday with Jan Raczynsky, chair of the Board of the international human rights organization Memorial and active...

Former MP Dalia Kuodytė passes away

Former MP, historian Dalia Kuodytė passed away aged 61 on 22 April. Mayor of Varėna District Algis Kašėta announced the news via Facebook and expressed...

Prime minister pays tribute to victims of Holocaust

On Friday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė paid tribute to the victims of the genocide of the Jews that had been...

Lithuania bans promotion of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their ideologies

The Lithuanian Parliament has banned promotion of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes and their ideologies in public objects. The law adopted on 13...

Seimas Speaker: Russia is bent on accomplishing today what it failed to carry through during Holodomor

Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the speaker of the Seimas, opened Thursday’s Seimas sitting by summoning the politicians to pay tribute to the victims of the...